Easy on there Imagele :smile:

Thought I would share my own thoughts based on observations and my own Ratings. These ratings are speed and pace based, maintained for every single horse that races in an event covered by any TAB across Australia (automatically plus some of my own review and personal judgement).

Let me just say at the start that I think Sound Action is a very good 3YO filly, the best in Australia at the moment.

My Benchmark Ratings have her last two performances at 101.2 and 101.7, which is damn good for a 3YO Filly.

The thing to note about her last win though in the Schweppes Oaks is that the pace was only very moderate and she was able to sprint very well over the final section, the sign of a good horse. In short she was ideally suited in that event and won the way she should given her ability. I would call it a good win...but given the way she was suited, certainly not Awesome.

To put her ratings in perspective, following are the best 3YO staying ratings so far this Autumn. I have also added in brackets the Ozeform peak ratings for each horse during the Autumn:

Clangalang 103.9 (68, 70)
Mummufy 103.3 (66.5, 67.5)
Natural Blitz 103.1 (67, 67,5)
Sound Action 101.7 (65)
Sound Action 101.2 (65)
Shower of Roses 98.7 (68, 66.5)
Fine Society 98.1 (63)
Helenus 97.2 (67)

The top 3 are all Colts. Sound Action twice rates ahead of all the other fillies and is about 1 length behind the top 3 colts of the Autumn. I still think she has further improvement left in her. Ozeform has it similar although I think they have slightly overrated Shower of Roses and Helenus..but we all have our different opinions. I will stick to my numbers over Ozeform anyway :smile: (they are not the numbers Mark Read uses for his own ratings).

With Sound Action are we looking at the next Sunline? Definitely not.

Imagele, I don't think you can really directly compare their 1st preparations as you call it. Sunlines was as a spring 3YO, where as Sound Action's is as an Autumn 3YO. There is a massive difference as 3YO's develop and strengthen quite a deal the longer the season goes on.

The best comparison is their 3YO Autumn form and really there is no comparison.

Following a similar line with my own ratings...Sunlines ratings as an Autumn 3YO were 108.7 followed by 111.4 in the MV Oaks and an incredible 112.2 in the Doncaster. Sound Action has rated 101.7 so far.

Ozeform has the same runs rated as 68, 69.5 and 74.5 in the Doncaster....well ahead of Sound Actions 65 which I think is fair.

Sunline won a Doncaster as an 3YO beating the country's best milers, Sound Action has beaten the 2nd tier of 3YO fillies and was ideally suited in doing so.

Please don't get me wrong, i'm not taking anything away from Sound Action, purely trying to provide some analysis to put it in the perspective I see. She is the best middle distance 3YO filly racing in Australia at the moment and is just a shade below the best colts. I hope she can go on to bigger and better things, but she should never be mentioned in the same breath as Sunline.

Good discussion...this is what forums should be about....lets see more of it.